Early and long-term results of the combined treatment of patients with gastric cancer submitted to cryosurgery
Kshivets, O.M.; Bozhenkov, I.G.; Bazarnov, V.T.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 5: 19-20
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 2391876 Document Number: 352255
The results of combined treatment of 28 patients with gastric cancer, using cryosurgery (cryodestruction and subtotal gastric resection), were analysed. In 36 patients of the control group, the subtotal resection alone was performed. In cryodestruction of a tumor, intraoperative dissemination of tumor cells significantly reduced, which was in negative correlation with the five-year survival of the patients. In the experimental group, the five-year survival was 80% in stage II, 47.8%--in stage III, and in the control group--40 and 22.6%, respectively.